Following are some of the major events to have occurred on February 15:
\n1933 \u2013 Giuseppe Zangara, an Italian-born anarchist, failed to assassinate U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt in Miami.
\n1965 \u2013 Canada adopted the Red Maple Leaf as its flag.
\n1971 \u2013 Britain adopted decimal currency \u2014 100 new pence to the pound \u2014 from pounds, shillings and 240 pence to the pound.
\n1994 \u2013 Russian serial killer Andrei Chikatilo, the \u201cRostov Ripper\u201d who raped and butchered more than 50 victims, was executed after losing an 11th-hour appeal for clemency.
\n1997 \u2013 Historic railway ancient viaduct blown up in Olpe, Germany.
\n2003 \u2013 In a huge wave of demonstrations, the biggest since the Vietnam War, more than six million peace protesters took to the streets in 600 towns and cities against a war in Iraq.
\n2004 \u2013 China executed Yang Xinhai, one of its worst serial killers, a man who murdered 67 people and raped two dozen women in a four-year crime spree.
\n2008 \u2013 Most-expensive Hot Wheels car in history on display in New York.
\n2012 \u2013 Fire sweeps through Honduran prison.
\n2013 \u2013 Possible meteor shower over Russia.
\n2018 \u2013 Cyril Ramaphosa sworn-in as South Africa\u2019s president.
\n(Reuters)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On February 15, some major events occurred including an assassination attempt on U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933, Canada adopting the Red Maple Leaf as its flag in 1965, Britain adopting decimal currency in 1971, the execution of Russian serial killer Andrei Chikatilo in 1994, the blowing up of a historic railway viaduct in Germany in 1997, a wave of peace protests against the war in Iraq in 2003, the execution of Chinese serial killer Yang Xinhai in 2004, the display of the most expensive Hot Wheels car in New York in 2008, a fire in a Honduran prison in 2012, a possible meteor shower over Russia in 2013, and Cyril Ramaphosa being sworn in as South Africa’s president in 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3032,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[589,195,486,21,3,118,576,658,393,659,131,463,577,19,317,114,293,18],"class_list":["post-3031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cyprus","tag-africa","tag-britain","tag-china","tag-crime","tag-cyprus","tag-fire","tag-germany","tag-history","tag-new-york","tag-on-this-day","tag-prison","tag-protest","tag-protests","tag-russia","tag-south-africa","tag-top-news","tag-war","tag-world"],"acf":{"keyphrase":"","keywords":"","sourceimg":"","country-category":""},"yoast_head":"\n